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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Book Review: KILLER KOOL by Marty Ambrose

This is Ambrose's fourth in her Mango Bay Mystery series. The others have been called quick reads
and chic-lit for the beach. This one fills the bill, too.

Mallie Monroe, part-time reporter and full-time RV island
dweller, is burdened with too many, as the story opens. Too many boyfriends:
surfer Cole and Nick, the local cop. An over-the-top nasty boss who has just
made her the food editor for the Observer,
the newspaper for Coral Island. And too many murdered bodies a little later on.

She soon takes cares of the problem of too many boyfriends by
ticking off both of them and ending up at dinner with the island geezer, an
ancient man with ill-fitting teeth. Mallie tries her best to get to the
restaurants and write her reviews, but murder interferes. You'll meet some fun
characters. One is Madame Geri, a psychic and mind reader and the mother of
Jimmy, who is engaged to Sandy. Madame Geri foresees that the wedding will have
to be postponed, that murder will intervene. Sure enough, Carlos Santini, the
corpulent ice-cream vendor, succumbs to an apparent heart attack. The manager
of the RV park where Mallie lives, Wanda Sue, is another colorful character.
After one of the main suspects in Carlos' death expires, Mallie finds herself on
the killer's trail so the wedding can go on.

The easy, breezy style whips you through the fun story. If you're
not reading this on a beach, you can easily pretend you're right there, on
Coral Island